I used to climb mountains - real, vertical rock and ice formations. These are not the same. There are no vertical mountains or ice sheets. No crampons. There is simply pain.
As I mentioned to some friends recently, I resemble one woman in one video only in her hair - perhaps. She seemed to be excited and bubbly, not only in general, but also at the prospect of doing multiple mountain climbers.
Really.
For the rest of us wobbly folk, mountain climbers are self inflicted torture; no additional equipment required. In EA Sports Active 2 (EASA2), you become very knowledgeable of them. An average set for me is 55. Yes, 55 consecutively. In fact, I've found that in some workouts, my lovely non-wobbly non-sweating trainer chick expects me to do three sets of them. And live.
The first time I had to do a mountain climber in my life was week one of EASA2; I literally thought I was going to die. My mind boggled that anyone anywhere would ever be ambitious enough to create such an exercise. I mean, seriously, what has got to be going on in one's life that one needs to scratch one's head and think, "hmmm....now THAT would be a great idea."
Since week one, I've come to think of them as a necessary evil. They're there, I do them. I dislike them intensely, then they're done. I have noticed in the last 3.5 weeks that my ability to do them has increased dramatically. I still sweat, I still swear, but I make it through them and huff on to the next exercise. Non-wobbly trainer chick's exhortations that "this is all for YOU" do actually have the desired effect on me. I push to finish the set, I know that I am doing this for me, and I'm better for it.
Full Disclosure: EA Sports provided me an EA Sports Active 2 for free to try.
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